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In today’s COVID-19 update, the surgeon general warned Americans that this week may be our coronavirus “Pearl Harbor” moment, we’re using fewer hospital beds than predicted, and the New York Times has a shocking claim about U.S. deaths. But Glenn has a warning for Americans: The proposed coronavirus “cure” is nothing short of socialism and slavery to global collectivism. And does the Constitution designate gun shops and places of worship as “essential”?

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Welcome to the pact cast today, Glenn takes about phone calls from people trying to figure out right now and in what they ve been seeing. It's interesting here from around the country right now, as you know, from the mainstream media, all were hearing tease, basically what's going on New York City, which is where persons lived, so they are very, very focused on it, but there's a whole world out there and then lots of different things go down through a bunch of that today we go into whether the new malaysian approach to the corona virus is the right one kind of interesting. Johnson in the hospital with krona virus will get into that a lot of it. Also what to do with your kids in quarantine. If you're in that situation, you know it's It's interesting to say the least. We have a quota virus update, We have to eat incredible new development of left wing media sources who have been touting for use of all grocery,
for a very, very long time now having to deal with the fact that their banning them everywhere because approach the purpose, which is just just bizarre- that's all coming up on today's programme. Also, so let you know you can subscribe to please tv at please tv, dot, com, Slash, Glenn, he's the promo code Glenn, you can get a Red Fox officer biggest discount ever and tomorrow, Tuesday April seven, the bigger lease of arguing with socialist blends new book Forget it needed arguments against socialist more than ever after. The skirt of irish thing is over and throughout it I'm sure. So it's very well timed book.
Is fun to read and has all the factual needs with every argument against a socialist it's available in every book store, that's not gonna be opened, but you can offer it, of course, on line at Amazon or anywhere else. Get your books or glint back tat come into our current iris updates from Johns Hopkins University, Total confirmed cases worldwide. Now, one million two hundred and eighty four thousand that's up. Oh a quarter of a million since Friday total confirmed deaths now Seventy thousand! That's up! Sixteen hundred sorry, Sixteen thousand one hundred from Friday total confirmed recovered two hundred and seventy one
five percent of active cases are considered serious study from five percent on Friday, down from nineteen back at the high in February and eleven percent of U S confirmed, cases are still requiring hospitalization, roughly on par with ITALY at twelve percent vain and seventeen percent. Requiring hospitalization. We now have three hundred and thirty, six thousand eight hundred and fifty one new. Who confirmed cases that is up almost a hundred thousand. On Friday, I gave you the death count of six thousand. Today it is ninety six hundred and twenty. We now have about one per cent of the population tested they're saying now. According to the New York Times at the. U S, death toll is off a bit only by about a hundred percent coal?
nineteen deaths in the? U S, maybe under counted by half incomes didn't protocols, limited resources, patchwork of decision making have led to an under counting of people with the corona virus who have died. We give couple of examples from the New York Times. First, and a coroner in Indiana wanted to know if the girl virus had killed a man in early March but said her health department, I detest example to pay Medics in New York City say: media many patients die at home are never tested for corona virus, even if they shone. If they show all of these signs of infection with death certificates marked as cardiac arrest rare, the tory failure or unknown and eggs three in Virginia Funeral director prepared the remains of three people after health workers cautioned or that they tested positive for growth, a virus, but what of the three. Only one of the three had covered nineteen on the desk certificate, we
Definitely, no, there are covered nineteen deaths that are not accounted for. Across the country. They say that it is it's a hundred percent off the same. Fact as occurred in ITALY, Spain, Ecuador and China, where the rate at which patients are dying and lack of testing led to cross under counting of covert nineteen related deaths, as reported by the blaze last week, citing the Wall Street Journal and Al Jazeera. The door healthcare officials in some areas have taken to burning bodies in empty parking, lots or burying bodies in man graves with most the debts of the deaths never tested. Forks with nineteen in italian Viz Village, a mayor reported. He had more than three hundred bodies presumed covered nineteen, which does it not picked up or counted in ITALY's official numbers, the me told us on Friday, then Sunday were still waiting. He said via
risk and contaminate face, masks up to seven days, have we decided on what the face mass thing is story than they did in national recommendation that when you're out in public you should wear them. However, they also say that you need to be watching them because of yours. Keep being from the same water or handling the mask after you used it there the virus on the mask anyway. So it's not really do much good, a border, that's my favorite part. We look. A positive come out of this, but I want to favorite stories was the heed. The fact that now all of these grocery stores are banning the re usable bags and going back to the disputes that because of that. Because of you know the virus, which you know it's fine, is. This has been a legitimate problem for a long time with real bags because people take their bag and they put the meat in the bag in the the
juice or whatever leaks out in it, does all, as you propose to wash it every time, every time in the fun part about washing it every time. Is it eliminates any environmental positive that you would get? So if you don't Why should every time there is a slight environmental positive, though your risking your health and serious ways. If do wash out it's worse for the environment and plastic bags, so no big deal So your face mass could be effective for seven days, but don't worry about it. They check from USA. Today I found interesting. Finally, they got around to this. One. Did Obama deplete? U S national stockpiles and ninety five masks. Did you hear this is a conservative? You probably heard this. If you're a liberal Europe We didn't hear this: Yes, accordingly, USA today now they finally taken up the of the the the task he has.
Geared is up for swine flu and Cain and flooding clean up operations in two thousand and nine and then again in two thousand twelve, they use all the and ninety five masks or a lot of them, and then never put them back in stockpile so didn't replenish that's one of the reasons why Donald Trump Trompe so bad. We don't have any masks That would be. Somebody but more on the shelf. That we Barack Obama, yet our actions and interesting story today to about how George W Bush was obsessed with the pandemic. See we're. He read the nineteen eighteen flu Pandemic book which, where we ve talked about before The pre in, I guess I'll, be the radiant influenza rate is the problem well, no my best known book about nineteen eighteen flora and he read it was like look. This is serious. We need to prepare for even when we don't see coming because writer when it hits can be too late and heaps. Ben tons of times and rent time and resources, pairing the? U S, government for
this and it was whittled away by you know, largely Obama. I mean it was really a big deal to Bush personally abandoned yachts, Obama took over and you know you could, make the argument that trumps should have a renewed brought. All these things back in his first three years, there's not a whit, there's, no blame was person here overall, but still the Obama seems to be the one who really did not prioritize this as much as we would have hoped throughout this and its cost lodged in prioritized. Quite honestly, anything I mean when it comes to disaster. You don't have stockpile and then not replenish it if you're using it. You have to at the end, go back and replenish and they didn't and you know I don't blame. I don't blame Donald for that, and I don't blame Obama for not carrying through with George Bush's thing. I do blame him for or his administration for. Replenishing it that that's you
responsibility. I mean you know. We all learn that with our moms Somebody I mean you, don't want to replace the toilet paper or is that all I live for is just replacing everybody's toilet paper. There's a new role underneath the zinc that mean we all know, that from our mom. That's exactly what Barack Obama should have heard latest casually. As we told you earlier today, Corona Beer has officially stopped production. No, it's not that we're that Stupid Mexico has finally got in a clue and said that's not an essential business. I think there'd be a lot of people who would disagree with that have shuddered the beer business. Japan and Hong Kong may declare a new state of emergency the virus has re emerged:
both Japan in Hong Kong saw new waves of covert nineteen cases as travel and work restrictions were lifted about ten days ago. This don't be worse news. And then the surgeon general came out and said this is gonna, be the hardest and saddest for most Americans lives. So this is gonna, be the grimace period of the cover nineteen pandemic in the United States. This is cool. Gonna, be our Pearl harbor moment our nine eleven moment it's going to be, Localised is gonna, be happening all over the country, and I want Americans to understand that I want Americans to understand that his heart is this week is going to be, there is low. At the end of tunnel. Do you feeling at all stew. That this is going to be the artist most grim or Are you going to say? Is that a light at the end of the tunnel, I mean. Do you feel like it's that, like the do feel this, what he was saying
what was I know worth seeing that we're gonna be sings, nursing thousands of people die each day and remember the beginning year whole. What do you use of this? I think last week is currently the third largest Cause of death in America Brain That's right now, it's third, yes, you know, and if it just stayed stable, didn't grow oh just stayed stable by the end of the month. It would be the number one killer been around a hand dynamic in the last hundred lawnmowers and at last hundred years here, so I mean it's not in that's pretty remarkable. It's been pretty significant. I mean I again like especially In my situations differ, then, probably most of the people listening in that I'm still coming to work. Every day like I was talking to people this week, it could there I'd wait what you're still going in like how is that possible in a lot of the country. You know it's not like it is in New York, but
there are several major cities who are about to go through the same thing that New York is going through. We ve bought little bit of time, hopefully in some of the resources will get to the right spots. The president was pretty upbeat about. Getting the right amount of ventilators in such to each location, hopefully that Actually I sending their vent. Seattle. Sending their events to New York was great great yeah, I mean so hopefully I may. I do have a lot of confidence that when the United States decide something's a legitimate thing took focus on, we do pretty well at it usually It takes us time sometimes to pick these things up early. We talked about this with terrorism. Right, like you know, we were not necessarily taken its heresy for a long time and all of a sudden one. Once one Tuesday morning, we all colic wholly crap. This is a really important thing and we took it very seriously after that and we tend to do those things you know when we really put our mind to it. We do pretty well and
could see like the way that these companies are coming together, make but the mass in the face shields and ventilators, and We are, the testing is another one. I keep, I keep spouting, there's no one seems to care about it, it's it because it was a narrative apparently two weeks ago and no longer applies, but the idea but the United States had basically no tests at all three weeks ago and is now a hundred and fifty thousand a day we're up call to two million tests already with tat now more than any other country we known who knows with China, do throw them out. We know now, but we believed that we step up quickly. We have these rapid tests coming in between that and the potential antibody tests. You have a situation where we could get a handle on this and operate our country in a row positively, Sup somewhat normal fashion either. Before we get a cure or treatment. You know it's amazing, because I watched, I told ya, think on Friday that I watched sky NEWS from England and
there were two two stories it stuck out right at the top. The our one was the private sector saying please let us make ventilators, let us make masks. The private market was begging the government to allow them to make medical things and the government wasn't doing it, the very next story was the governments, look it up! It's unbelievable! The government's five five step plan To be at a hundred thousand covert tests by the end of this month, what what so the five step plan. I mean holy mother, you're kidding me we're doing a million a day and we were
a country that was, we have no clue what no. This is the capitalist system. Yet this is the capitalist system, and you know that this is what there's this thing going around about, how ah there's no libertarians in a pandemic. It's the opposite. Every He turns into libertarians of pandemic the most left, leaning. I want big government and people all see when it gets really important. They get rid of all was dumb restrictions on licensing issues. All long approval processes. These things we talked about one little bit certificate of need laws which are law, that J hey when you want to build new hospital, you have to go to they say, I think we need a new hospital and the state has to tell you yeah. We agree with you after hearing the opposing opinions from people in the community who know best, namely the Petition you'd have in the hospital that already exists The commission and, of course, don't approve a lot of these hospitals. The same thing goes with important medical equipment like em arise in ventilators right, so they
They go through this. They had at one point. Forty nine states had these. They started to whittle away as Ino as Reagan went on, but I think it was at. The summit thirty, six states when the pandemic started it. I think it's Fifteen of those states most of it, most hard hit by this being a pandemic, have all wave those laws now, so that people, can bring in more beds and Hamburg and more ventilators put you kid, Very little use once the pay Emma has already begun if you had an open system and there were enough beds there already. You won't have to worry about these things. Last second set of bringing ships in off the off the coast. The these are the kinds of things that you will learn about in arguing with socialist the new book it comes out officially. Tomorrow, you can ordered on Amazon right now. I think this is really important to make this a number one best selling book even top. Best selling book from the New York Times, it would send a real message
this week in the pandemic of everybody's. I call no. We want government, we want government, no, no arguing with socialist by your copy. Now. And get it wherever you buy books. This is the master, the Glen Back Programme, and we really want to thank you for listening, a great battle against an invisible enemy. All of these things that Donald Trump has said, their true and they make perfect sense, even trumps, most ardent supporters and his most ardent opponents, both of them say this is a once in a generation emergency and we should be on wartime footing and the opponents of Donald Trump, many of them
have called for more and more power to be handed to know let me get this right to be taken, By the president to do battles against this invisible enemy, thing from come: adhering manufacturing plants to logistics, to shipping companies, farmers, Local manufacturing reason Urge nationalizing the banks would He's going on. You he was a tyrant, your opposed to it and you're. Just telling him to do all these things. No, and thank God We have a president and understands the free market presence. And it is preferred to form a partnership with private industries. To wait. The war turning America's great companies to produce masks and respirators and ventilators in medicine, in vaccines or things that will ensure our country can and will prevail, wild keeping them private.
The United States and the entire world. They are engaged right now in a great battle against an unseen enemy anatomy that Britain's to kill our people, destroy our nation and our way of life and its an enemy that we have seen and fought before. As a people we ve, this enemy throughout human history. Over and over and over again, we ve had to battle it. All of us are descendants of survivors of the countless previous wars that humanity has had to fight against this hidden, and of man the end It is a disease, the end It is a virus. But the enemy is not Sars. Cove id too colonel virus. The virus were actually fighting against the unseen, the one that wants to remain unseen, Is slavery
You can call it. What you want. Socialism collectivism communism, statism despotism authoritarianism whatever want to call it its slavery. People's individual liberty captured for the benefit betterment? of everybody else. Those are all forms of enslaving. Some men, to the will of others. That slavery. The virus, is a biological construct and do Battle against a virus requires both the symptoms caused by the infection, as well as finding a vaccine that can destroy the viruses. Well but slavery, is also a political and moral construct, it's a social disease caused by an immoral idea, spread by
I'm thinking on feeling human beings who transmit the disease to others, turning them into factories that produce more unthinking unfeeling human beings. They take over the lives of more and more people within a society or country until that country is completely destroyed, defences exhausted. Doing battle against slavery require is treating both the symptoms caused by the infection within a society as well as finding a cure that condition. The idea itself. President Donald Trump is absolutely right. This is a war he's. Also, that we fought this type of war before. But this is not a war again. The corona virus that quite frankly, is Yields plays terrible as it is covered eighteen is not going to kill us, kill a few of us, but we will prevail.
The spread. We will find a cure Eric in the world will survive this pandemic, as it has survived millions of others in the past, each ass is a descendant of survivors of a thousand biological plagues. The president is right. We cannot let the you're for covert nineteen. Beware: then the disease itself and he has the right idea in terms of the outcome here. We can't let our response to corona virus destroy the America, economy. And when I say the american economy, seems cold and callous because that's not really the objective to save, The economy is not the objective. Healthy productive american economy. Will enable people to generate wealth and accumulate things and
To be healthier,. To be safer, to be more free. That's a consequence. That's an outcome. It's not cause in itself. What is enabled the american economy to be the most Boston, powerful engine for human ingenuity, productivity, wealth generation. Individual liberty. Men, free to think men free to build. Men free to fail to see new achievements and to be rewarded for doing so. And punished by their own actions, the consequence of their own actions and troll consequence. They fail right to compete with each other,
driving each other to be smarter to work harder to find a better way to solve problems. Amerika hats economy, that's America! That's the battle, wherein that's the battle, we're fighting to save. If the cure for covert nineteen is the slavery of some men for the benefit and betterment of others, then, Over nineteen perhaps should Take us all cost of defeating the biological virus. That we then die on the table to political and more the disease of collectivism. Trumps. Fear Willoughby Proved to be right in the queue we will have been much worse than the disease I want you to look at it's been proposed: the? U S: government should take over every major industry from healthcare to pharmaceutical companies. Gross
Food delivery, airline, shipping, transportation construction, take it over banking taken over stock market, take it over on the global scale. Now that you know, The nations is now calling for a permanent ten per and global tax on the gdp of every country I say this is designed of Munich fight, covert nineteen permanent Herman ten percent tax to, Able, the? U N, D, fight future pandemics as well As the ongoing pandemic club change in poverty and income, inequality and sexism and nationalism, and a thousand other isms that are really really super unfair.
The United States is less than five percent of the world's population, but we represent twenty five percent of the world's gdp. So the? U N is effectively proposing that about four percent of the population transfer ten percent of our wealth each year to support the remaining ninety six percent of the human race. If you don't think that's farewell, I just call it a progressive income tax. But I will tell you this. That leads to our destruction and if you think it's unfair, then maybe you should do some rethinking, because Maybe you been pushing from the wrong policies here in Amerika, because it feels like the world wants to destroy us. What proposed here is nothing short of permanent enslavement of the United States for the betterment and benefit of every other national on earth.
No doubt in my mind that humans will survive covered nineteen when will do it in spectacular fashion. But the leg of collectivism, the idea that some men should be slave to others- that's the oldest idea in the book that somehow we'll have some sort of right to lay claim to the intellect and productive energies of others, That's the real battle here that the true, invisible enemy that we must yet again, and defeat ask yourself this week would you have some right to charge into Michael indulge my pillow betting factory and point a gun to him and his workers and force them to produce cotton face mass to avoid being shot now this ridiculous sounds preposterous and all rational thinking. Human beings would clearly see that is immoral and a criminal act, but
I see it as immoral in and criminal in vast amounts of the of the world. That's happened in the world, and yet there are people here proposed to do that, they just didn't, say: you'd get shot but they're coming in Full force of the government and, at the end, its way, has the guns? No be some people say white. What the United States do that. I want the? U N to do that now want somebody. You know in a blue helmets. But I'm ok. If they have a? U S! Marshals badge May I ask you: this does Michael, indeed, have the right to choose, to convert his factory over, to make cotton face, masks at his own expense and pay as workers to make those masks instead of making pillows? Yes, yes, that is, is moral choice.
To human being engaged in an activity that he believes to be virtuous and right, and yes for the love that all is of all that is holy and profitable, just as with covered nineteen, the defeat of all forms of slavery, show be an inevitability, and yet, every corner of our country there is a call for the Worst enslavement, as some people for the benefit of others. We are on the verge of losing every thing that we have always held dear. On the verge of losing the things that matter, the the most to not just us but what we want our children to be to have a sure where they chart their own course a future where They can live and grow and be free
and live their dreams. Yes experience some nightmares from time to time But those nightmares won't defy in them, unless they choose the nightmare. Tromp has this exactly right: we cannot let the You're for covered nineteen come at the cost of our economy and, if that's the objective then Our original principles, individual liberty, freedom of movement, freedom of speech, free, of religion freely to defend yourself. Those are the things that need to be defended, that's, how we protect and restore our economy and our country. That's, how we ensure that our children's children will also be descendants of survivors of plagues in pandemics, where their biological or the moral kind.
This is why I wrote arguing with Phyllis. Because I know the fight is on. And we have to be in that fight. Wrote this. Not only for you, it's easy to read its very, very funny, it's in the style of arguing with idiots, which was our biggest seller, I think, and it's for color. It's like it's almost like a comic book in part and it's one of those books You can pick up in red from anywhere, and we did that because I'm riddled with eighty d but also because it was really effective. We saw in all of the books. It we have written inconvenient book, and arguing with idiots those books in this style were the ones that p consumed themselves learned a lot from and then gave it to. Their children or their grand Children
their grandchildren used it in college, essays high school s, age element school essays. I've heard from four years how those books had been used, because we all have footnotes intimacy. Don't ever quote me, you quote the p. Who actually said it. We need to arm ourselves with ammunition. We need to know that secure, is not being called socialism, but this or is socialism, it is the modern monetary theory. It is universal basic income. A socialist dream.
Book is officially out tomorrow. You can have it at your house tomorrow. The order it now at Amazon or wherever you by your books, arguing with socialists. It is out tomorrow, make sure you grab it. You are listening to the nest Glinda programme this is the global programme. So there's a couple of things that are going on that we probably talk about don't buy into any of this five g crap. I dont know if you seen it yet it's big overseas in in in great Britain, there they're burning down the five g masts the big cell towers has apparently five
gee, it is weakening our immune system and so that's why the Chinese gotta, because they were the first to be able to have five g. Their immune system is so weak, and now, if you have five g m european system, is a That'S- that's what's causing us, so there too, people down to act now and burn those towers down and then I don't know our is great Britain, making cell towers out of. Like you know, wooden roller coaster is. Are we actually are burning them down Us Marilla. I can make a matter steel, most around, of a stern o lugs, which is a strange thing to build rock utter rush hour. I went stardom. Just start a may, they don't usually get struck by lightning resent themselves on fire by once they star burn. A narrative own stuff drives me out of my mind. Out of my mind,
here's another story. This one comes out of Massachusetts, looks like they govern Charlie Baker is not real popular in the gun world shop owners are not taking kindly to the demand that they closed their doors during the corona virus crisis. After he labelled them non essential. In March, Baker Republican ordered all non essential businesses, closer physical workplaces and facilities, both workers and the public. Until April seventh. Last week he extended that order through May forth. The state published a list of businesses and organisations, it considers essential. That would allow to keep their brick and mortar facilities open, notably not on the role of essential businesses were gun shops However, firearms and animistic ammunition manufacturers, importers and distributors distribution centres, where on the list.
But that hasn't stop the gun owners guy, who runs the gun runner dedicated to your site in amendment rabbits I was on W b c tv. His name is John caught. Costa owns the gun, runner in middle borough. He told W b c that he not only disagrees with bakers, belief that gun business is not essential, but he also stated that he was constitutionally protected to stay open by the Second Amendment ok under the second man. We have every right to defend ourselves and he's not taking any social distancing precautions either a says some You know I'm sorry he sees not taking those for granted. He is doing it. He saying I'm let my customers to the curb and I do all by business curbside outside so at sea? I think he's right. It's interesting to see that the the constitutional lines being drawn here,
his eye ever real problem with the idea you the government would be able to tell church that it can meet under based the clear any circumstances. Now I think I'm church, I don't want that to happen right now. I don't want to have a church, and when I do it online line, I wanna do. I know we had a someone called in. Her there's a few these that have happened across the country where they're kind of spreading out like drive through my movie theater sort of patterns, and they have Big loudspeakers in a room. Kunak sits on their backs the back of their car whatever in, and does it that way? I think that's seemingly totally acceptable, but, like I think, ass, a child I think you'd want to be able to protect the people as well as you can, and do it online or whatever, but like. I am, I think, they decide. You know what we're gonna do. With the way we want to do it with no social distance that you like. I don't know, you can. I don't know that you can Our people from meeting there that you can have regulations, aim regulations on every church right every building has to be made. We note a certain,
regulations that every building has to make to be safe and there's those sorts of things you could probably put on churches, but to say they meat- even It is for a limited time. Is a really weird constitutional light. I know I feel weird about it. When it comes to guns. They they didn't Nguyen Katrina actually right ended and the problem is said: it's a the state doing it, not the federal government of the states doing its constitution and bill of rights. You know is applied differently in the states because the states have- the quarantine power, the United States of America, the FED does not have the quarantine bower. The states have that and if they say all businesses, see where they're getting in trouble is essential businesses and then they're saying that that's not essential. Well, a lot people would say, faith is essential, lotta people would say, guns are essential, and I would tend to agree with him on the guy
thing. You can only get it at that store. It's not like faith, we can get on line and we can do things and we can talk can you know share that way, but guns. If I want to buy a gun, I'm I've gotta go to the store. I gotta get it. You know buying it from them. Oddly enough, because on regulations, they can't send them to us how great you'd have to physically or disorder get the ballots drew it exactly. It's a weird line. I talked to a german dice over its first liberty and they do them this. What they do for a living which is like you know, making sure that religion, rights are protected. All around the country and he said that in others have prevailed. Pretty long. History of limb, did time quarantine and the ability for states to stop this. As long as it's very short and limited in scope,
but it is. I just makes me nervous that they can do it even for a minute. This is. I understand that this is important, not mean I'm not going to. Church If they are opened up my church, I would still watch it online and I want to be no. You want to take this, for caution is just I don't understand you. There, to be some sort of like that. You could see these pastors there. Getting in trouble now because of doing full out services. You could see them going to court after this and winning I mean it no, that the courts have, generally speaking, ordered the states rights to be able to limit the stuff, but you could see it being overturned. Especially in places like we know. We talk that pastor. Where was he in Louisiana? We said we don't have internet lay in o archer. It does not have a big. You know television broadcast kind of component to it. We don't have internet and a lot of people lit. Let live here in that community EAST. He serves the under served community,
any said that we gotta gather we're not seeing each other, and so you what you gonna do what you gonna do telling these people. That faith is not essential I beg to differ with you on that, but it's it's a tough, it's a tough place to be really tough place to being seems like. If you want to start with the central, maybe the the com the traditionally guaranteed rights might a place to Cairo start with and say these things up, pretty essential essential is what does it mid March? Were Joe Biden is still encouraging people to go to the polls and vote? They thought that pretty essential? Now I mean you, that's the you could do no were, but they still were like now. That's no big deal go in Florida. Go vote, it'll be great. So did you see sue the thing about how much of the businesses have been closed because we took a wild gas on when we say we ve closed down America. How,
Much of a man Have we actually closed? How much a homo it is not functioning right now right and then I was we're talking about. That was because I think heads we think it's like eighty or ninety percent like it just like. The feeling around our hearts are the feeling that we are getting is eighty or ninety percent close down, but we all realise that can't be accurate right. I mean there's a lot of oh functioning on people, I know who have jobs that are Not like you know, hands on jobs are working at home as a lot of people who are working in how many of these businesses are continuing to operate. There does offer in a totally different way. So I think I asked you like what gimme a percentage, what it, what percentage of economy do you think is actually shut down right now, and you said so. I said thirty year. Thirty percent which it was your s, men which is the the think would be an estimate. Most people would think. That's too small
that was kind of what I want to do to get out of you to see. If that's how you felt too, because when I really started to go mad at ease a lot smaller than I would have originally thought. Yeah. I gave thirty percent and I felt like that's that prices right number, you know the closest. Without going over. You know I could be fifty or sixty, but since I was the only contestant, you know I felt I for sure thirty percent and you lie on the prices right apparently, because you went over. I did Twenty nine percent is what they are now estimating, or does amazing. That was religious means off the top of your head, thirty percent guess, but it means that's that's an interesting and, and I will say in a weird way: I'm a little optimistic about that number, because the answer that, of course, is no wherein all probably economy being shut down for a year. The answer that of course, is no wherein all probably never ending depression. In some ways that way. Can we deal
two months of a thirty percent decrease. I mean probably right, I mean it Right, I think, would be it in a look. I we're gonna have all sorts of long term problems associated with these trillion dollar bills. They keep thrown out there that there is no doubt about that. We're not major problems to deal with, obviously, the actual virus, which is a huge thing, but also in other ways. The government, is cracking down on things and converting to be grabbing power like crazy and there's gonna be all sorts of crazy. If that happens after this gonna be a big fight for all of us, but I mean the economy is really we lose thirty percent of it. For let's say two or three months you're talking a gdp drop which will be devastating in many ways, but ip, something, that's not as devastating as in our head. Were we shutting down in its just like Emily streets everywhere and burned out buildings that never get rebuilt? There is a sort of walking dead thing, that's in our heads and if we can
come up with a way to turn this realm relatively quickly. Maybe there is reason for optimism. Maybe this thing can come back. The way Trump has been talking about it so do you want a pan in Europe? your bubble or do what you are you're, ruining my optimism already, I'm just I just finished outlining a cleaner saw. You I mean, let's you alleged facility for second on limiting the now could Erika here's the the downside of this. I have a feeling that thirty percent, though, are all of the real entrepreneurial style, businesses there, they small business person who yeah or operates a brick and mortar shop or restaurant, or something like that, You know, I mean ya, ya, know all those stores that line all of our downtowns or even in the malls. Those things are all closed.
And that's you know that eighty percent of the economy, a small business, yet one of the things I so, let's ride a zeal started with that point. One of the things I thought about it like we obviously do a lot of online shopping already and more stop buying things necessarily risk gotta be buying those things on line instead of bricks and mortar. How much of that is going to reversing, because it was only like twenty percent of buying was on line, which I was surprised that would be a little higher than that going into. This was about twenty percent to eighty percent of stuff. What was bought You know in broken mortar stores, apparently you know that numbers going you go up, but it's not going to make up for all the loss, and the question is if it comes back now we have fifty percent of stuff is bought online. It's gonna be a huge adjustment for for any any. Store minute. The whole thing is that the landscapes gonna change. In ass if a massive ways, because of us by You know me again
How can we have a budget for small business owner friends that we know that we now, I'm sure you know them as well? Blended, it's like you talked it images like they're, trying to figure out this programme, which is at the top two been a total disaster so far its ruled out in a terrible way, and I think that communicated it well a lot of these I don't even have access to these loans? Yet so it's too, you know it's terrible, be beat you know you they'll give you loans that will pay for it lets say two months of sound. Refer your workers, but then you have to keep an employed for four months to port, to turn to a grant. So you had this guy up there of like? If we don't come back on line? Do you know we're the President saying like the look, if this does if it's not enough for going to pass more money, Which again is is a terrifying, long term aspects. So I mean it really. Is it's it's a mess right now.
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